July 18, 2008
"Dark Knight" Draws Sellout Crowds
Movie Theaters Show Latest Batman Flick Around The Clock
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Play CBS Video Video Fan Hysteria For 'Dark Knight' The new Batman movie "The Dark Knight" is making its debut on more than 4,000 movie screens, the most ever. But even so it's sold out across the country. Priya David reports.
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Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman in "The Dark Knight." (Warner Bros.)
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BEHIND THE MASK "The Dark Knight" Meet the actors, test your Bat-sense and follow the Caped Crusader through the decades.
Media By Numbers, a tracking firm, said the Warner Bros. movie set a box office record for a midnight debut, bringing in $18.5 million Friday from its midnight screening in 3,040 theaters.
Regal Cinemas in New York's Union Square screened the movie every hour on the hour to sellout crowds.
The line stretched around three sides of a city block, but for those serious fans who bought their tickets weeks ago a few hours on the pavement didn't dull their enthusiasm.
"I'm just excited man, it's been a long time," fan Nathaniel Hamilton told CBS News Correspondent Priya David. "They started showing the trailer like seven months ago, so it's like ever since the first trailer, ever since the end of the first movie really we've been raring to go."
"This is more like a 'Dark Knight' comic book, it's a darker version," said another fan, Bobby Kogos, "it's less campy, more serious tone."
Heath Ledger's turn as The Joker is already creating Oscar buzz. Together with Christian Bale cast again as Batman, critics say the film won't disappoint fans.
This madness won't stop anytime soon and with lines like these around the country "The Dark Knight" is expected to easily break into the top ten grossing films of all time.
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- I THINK THIS MOVIE WILL ROCK BECAUSE THE JOKER IS PLAY BY HEATH LEDGERS HE ROCKS JACK NICHOLSON I DON''T LIKE I AM GLAD HEATH IS IN IT?
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- You mean Heath Ledger....
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- Dark Knight is the greatest of all time! Just before it started one fan yelled out "Watch it will suck" After it was over he was standing clapping his hands in approval! Best Batman Chapter Ever. Best Joker Ever! Jack Nicholsons Joker was really a Joke compared to Keith Ledger! He really shows the true Joker that the comics portrayed by writer DC Comics writer Kane! I wish he was still alive to see it. Sold out all over the theatres with people in long lines to see it!
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